Years of evidence leads to only one possible conclusion about the state of affairs in Salt Lake City: Utah’s athletic department budget, like its football team, can only be knocked off course by a health crisis.
On the field, a surreal spate of injuries last fall derailed the Utes’ pursuit of their third consecutive Pac-12 title.
Meanwhile, it took a global pandemic to interrupt Utah’s streak of profitable years.
The Hotline examined a decade’s worth of financial documents...